It is with great joy that the National Cursillo Secretariat announces a special Advent gift for the Cursillo community – Most Reverend Felipe Pulido has graciously accepted the National Secretariat’s invitation to serve as the National Cursillo Episcopal Advisor for the Cursillo Movement in the United States.

Auxiliary Bishop Pulido was born and raised in a small town located west of Mexico City, and attended minor seminary in Uruapan, Michoacán. There, he attended middle school and began high school, but in 1988, he and his family left Mexico and moved to the Yakima Valley, where he finished high school. As a teenager, he
worked in the fields, picking fruit and vegetables. Later, he worked as a teaching assistant at the Epic Migrant Head Start program in Yakima. For a period of about five months, he helped care for Father Jerry Corrigan, a priest in his parish who was dying of cancer. He and Father Corrigan had many conversations and, during one of them, the priest invited him to consider entering the priesthood. In 1994, he began his priestly formation at Mount Angel Seminary in Oregon. Four years later, he began theological studies at the Pontifical North American College and later at the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family, both in Rome.

He was ordained to the priesthood on June 28, 2002. At the time of his appointment as auxiliary bishop of San Diego, he was serving as vicar for clergy and as vocations director for the Diocese of Yakima, as well as pastor of St. Joseph Parish in Kennewick, WA.